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An effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as 'a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will to follow this or th

The primary meaning of this term in all the leading European languages seems to involve the notion of good fortune, good chance, good happening; but from a very early date in the history of Greek philosophy the conception became the center of keen specula

(1) Rene-Just, mineralogist; b. at Saint-Just (Oise), Feb. 28, 1743; d. at Paris, June 3, 1822; (2) Valentin Hauy, founder of the first school for the blind, and known under the endearing name of 'Father and Apostle of the Blind'; b. at Saint-Just, in the

(1) Edmund, Jesuit, and envoy to Mary Queen of Scots, b. 1540?; d. at Rome, Nov. 4, 1591; (2) John Hay, kinsman and contemporary of Edmund, of the family of Hay of Dalgetty; b. 1546; d. at Pont-a-Mousson, 1608

(I) Name and Place of Heaven; (II) Existence of Heaven; (III) Supernatural Character of Heaven and the Beatific Vision; (IV) Eternity of Heaven and Impeccability of the Blessed; (V) Essential Beatitude; (VI) Accidental Beatitude; (VII) Attributes of Beati

The name given to the group of ethical systems that hold, with various modifications, that feelings of pleasure or happiness are the highest and final aim of conduct; that, consequently, those actions which increase the sum of pleasure are thereby constit